On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:53:03PM -0700, Mark McClelland wrote:
> 
> The OV518 and OV518+ cameras require a new file to be added to 
> drivers/usb/media, ov518_decomp.c. This code supports kernel-mode 
> decompression of the proprietary OV518 datastream. There is resistance 
> to adding this sort of code to the kernel, due to the usual 
> do-it-in-kernelspace vs. do-it-in-userspace issue. I will send a 
> separate patch for that to Greg, and leave the decision of whether to 
> accept it up to him (and Linus/Andrew).

But is there a way to do this in userspace?  I thought the new V4L2
interface was going to provide this functionality.  Does it?

thanks,

greg k-h


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